Artist's Statement

I grew up in a country that that metaphor is a poetic word for restriction so being an artist is the most difficult and at the same time the easiest way of living here in Iran. I have been working with different mediums such as photography, video, installation but there is one common ground among all: silence.

The wallpaper is a piece that makes the viewer to get close to the wall to see the pattern closely to realize that the dots are from my own face, at the same time it is so claustrophobic that he/she wants to leave the room immediately. While it makes you approach it, it will keep you distant.

I also started experiencing my own body such as my hair, my throat and my skin. How can I hear the sound of my body? How can I expose it to be touched? I wanted to make it tactile and uttered.

'Contact', 'The Sound Of My Hair', 'Hair Folder', and 'Tight or Loose Hair' were some of the results.

The 'Contact 'series was an approach to find "myself". By scratching my face and my skin on the surface of the photographs, I was symbolically trying to go beyond my own body but the deeper I was scratching, the more disappeared images I had.

'The Sound Of My Hair' is an undersized piece made out of my own hair nailed directly on a huge wall. I wanted the strands to be invisible at the first sight catching your eyes by the title. A hammer has nailed them on the wall to make it silenced.

In the 'Hair Folder' it is the other way around. A big black cube with a lot of drawers is an archive of locks. The drawers can be pulled out and in by the viewers. People can share the feeling of seeing silenced locks in coffins.

The last piece, 'Tight Or Loose' installed in a deep frame, is tightened in a cloth hoop instead of fabric to be sown, hung up on the wall, they are decorative objects to be inside the houses.